Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition.

- Kinder, Jack

Best Quotes about Simplicity

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

Albert Einstein

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Ruskin, John

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Einstein, Albert

The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.

Lee, Bruce

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Bailey, Philip James

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

James, Henry

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Buffett, Warren

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Stuberg, Robert

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Lee, Bruce

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Johnson, Samuel

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I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Bennett, Tony

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I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Moses, Grandma

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Kempis, Thomas

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao-tzu

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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

Mann, Thomas

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There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Hoare, C.A.R.

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

Greene, Graham

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Seabury, David

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Cooper, James F.

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Holliwell, Raymond

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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Wang, An

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

Wilde, Oscar